Calendar of Documents and Related Historical Materials in the Archival Center, Archdiocese of Los Angeles for the Episcopate of the Right Reverend Thomas James Conaty.

1992 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 1552
Author(s):  
Timothy Walch ◽  
Miriam Ann Cunningham ◽  
Robert D. Schuster ◽  
James Stambaugh ◽  
Ferne Weimer
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Archdiocese Of Los Angeles ◽  
The Right

Gentrification, Displacement, and the Right to the City

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-194
Author(s):  
Jan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Social Violence ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Examines the impacts of the sharpening gentrification process in Northeast Los Angeles and its socioeconomic and racial overtones as immigrant working class Latino/a families are increasingly threatened by displacement through rent increases, evictions, and socially traumatic uprooting of multi-family networks. Gentrification is tied to neoliberal local state efforts in Los Angeles to incentivize private investment through urban policy strategies like transit-oriented development, transit villages and small lot housing development. I argue the creative frontier of urban restructuring in Northeast LA also generates social violence expressing capitalism’s tendency to foster “accumulation by dispossession” that has been countered by neighborhood “right to the city” movements. I examine the rise of the urban social movements like Friends of Highland Park and Northeast LA Alliance that advocate for the rights of those threatened by housing displacement and eviction, address community and environmental impacts of new high-density housing projects, and campaign for more socially just housing and urban planning policies in Los Angeles. There is also examination of the plight of the homeless and rehabilitating gang members

Truck Drivers

2021 ◽  
pp. 311-445
Author(s):  
Scott L. Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Innovative Strategy ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Big Box ◽  
The Right ◽  
Trucking Companies

This chapter examines the monumental campaign to raise labor and environmental standards in the trucking industry at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. Building on the blue-green coalition launched in the CBA and big-box contexts—and incorporating central lessons from a decade of community–labor organizing in Los Angeles—the Campaign for Clean Trucks emerged as a fight over air quality but ultimately advanced as a local policy struggle over working conditions for roughly sixteen thousand short-haul port truck drivers. For these drivers, the central problem was their misclassification as independent contractors. Misclassification forced drivers to bear all the costs of operation—contributing to poorly maintained dirty diesel trucks causing air pollution—while depriving them of the right to organize unions to improve labor conditions. Restoring drivers to the status of employees was the mutual goal bringing together the labor and environmental movements in this campaign. It rested on a novel legal foundation: The ports, as publicly owned and operated entities, had the power to define the terms of entry for trucking companies through contracts called concession agreements. The campaign—led by LAANE, the Teamsters union, and NRDC—leveraged this contracting power to win passage of the landmark 2008 Clean Truck Program, which committed trucking companies seeking to enter the Los Angeles port to a double conversion: of dirty to clean fuel trucks (thus reducing pollution) and of independent contractor to employee drivers (thus enabling unionization). However, the program’s labor centerpiece—employee conversion—was invalidated by an industry preemption lawsuit that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. As a result, the policy gains from a blue-green campaign built on mutual interest were split apart and reallocated, resulting in environmental victory but labor setback. Why the coalition won the local policy battle but lost in court—and how the labor movement responded to this legal setback through an innovative strategy to maneuver around preemption—are the central questions this chapter explores.

scholarly journals The Right to Have Digital Rights in Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11438
Author(s):  
Igor Calzada
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
City Councils ◽  
Policy Experimentation ◽  
City Network ◽  
The Right

New data-driven technologies in global cities have yielded potential but also have intensified techno-political concerns. Consequently, in recent years, several declarations/manifestos have emerged across the world claiming to protect citizens’ digital rights. In 2018, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and NYC city councils formed the Cities’ Coalition for Digital Rights (CCDR), an international alliance of global People-Centered Smart Cities—currently encompassing 49 cities worldwide—to promote citizens’ digital rights on a global scale. People-centered smart cities programme is the strategic flagship programme by UN-Habitat that explicitly advocates the CCDR as an institutionally innovative and strategic city-network to attain policy experimentation and sustainable urban development. Against this backdrop and being inspired by the popular quote by Hannah Arendt on “the right to have rights”, this article aims to explore what “digital rights” may currently mean within a sample consisting of 13 CCDR global people-centered smart cities: Barcelona, Amsterdam, NYC, Long Beach, Toronto, Porto, London, Vienna, Milan, Los Angeles, Portland, San Antonio, and Glasgow. Particularly, this article examines the (i) understanding and the (ii) prioritisation of digital rights in 13 cities through a semi-structured questionnaire by gathering 13 CCDR city representatives/strategists’ responses. These preliminary findings reveal not only distinct strategies but also common policy patterns.

The Coastal Sea Breeze in Relation to Diurnal Temperature Changes in the Lower Atmosphere (Southern California)

1947 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 371-380
Author(s):  
Luna B. Leopold ◽  
Charles G. P. Beer
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Vertical Motion ◽  
Sea Breeze ◽  
Lower Atmosphere ◽  
Los Angeles Basin ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Coastal Sea ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Order

A diurnal variation of temperature at constant levels in the lower atmosphere was observed at all stations in the Los Angeles basin area. The amplitude of the variation increases with height. This variation has been studied as a diurnal oscillation in the height of isentropic surfaces. The rise and fall of isentropic surfaces may indicate an appreciable diurnal change of vertical motion, but in the higher levels, are at least partly explained by errors in measurement of temperatures by radiosondes. In levels below 4,000 feet msl vertical motion of the right order of magnitude could be caused by the diurnal accumulation and depletion of air as a result of the sea-breeze regime.

ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE PHENOMENON

2021 ◽  
pp. 215-224
Author(s):  
Daria A. Edakina ◽  
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Eduard I. Chernyak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The State ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Civil Structures ◽  
National Education ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Right ◽  
Heritage Area ◽  
Protection Activity

This article is dedicated to the urgency topic of preservation and study of cultural heritage. Because of the limitlessness of the cultural heritage area, the authors took the opportunity to structure the cultural space. They singled out the complex of architecture and urban planning and defined it as an architectural heritage. The named complex includes buildings and structures that incorporate the high construction and artistic skills of their creators and form the surrounding inhabited space. Using the scientific works of N.M. Karamzin, D.S. Likhachev and other investigators, some written and visual sources, the authors of the article reveal the features of the architectural appearance of such medieval cities as Moscow, Novgorod, Pskov, Vologda. It must be note that the close relationship between urban practices and the natural environment as the most important characteristic of architectural heritage is defined. So reviewing historical materials about the ancient Novgorod, academician D.S. Likhachev wrote that unforgettable image of the developed, inhabited country was created. It is important to note that the article contains materials about the death and destruction of architectural monuments, which required their protection. An overview of the monument protection activity in Russia made known that the Imperial Russian Archaeological Society, established in 1846, was pioneered in it. It is noted that the Moscow Archaeological Society achieved the greatest success in the protection and restoration of monuments of church and civil architecture in the middle of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its creators and leaders, spouses A.S. and P.S. Uvarov, had the right to permit or prohibit the restoration and conversion of ancient structures in many cities of the country, and they used this right actively. The events of the 1917 Revolution changed the situation in the architectural heritage area. Identification and protection of architectural monuments was transferred to the state structures. A department for museums and protection of art and antiquities was established as part of the National Education Commissariat (Narcomat of Education). Units of this department formed around the country were called as committees for museums and protection of monuments of art and antiquities. The article reports on the results of the identification and preservation of architectural monuments in Siberian cities Tomsk and Kuznetsk. It is known that in the 1930s many church monuments and civil structures were destroyed in Russia. Still in 1940–1990s the monument protection activity received serious legislative support from the state power. So facts and their interpretation taken together allow the authors to talk about architectural heritage as a phenomenon of Russian history, requiring study and preservation.

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